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liful dwarf flowering plants. They require to have full sun <o expand 

 their lovely blossoms; they require a ricli loam and a sprinkling 

 of lime rubbish. The flowers are of a i)urple and wliite, with a dark 

 eye. ]M. coccineum, red flowers ; M. micans, shining scarlet ; and M. 

 speciosum, rosy crimson, also do well in beds, in a sod as above 

 named. 



O.rahs Bowcii. — This is a charming plant for a bed, when the 

 flowers are required to be from six inches to a foot high. They bloom 

 beautifully »ip to October. 



Oxulis Lutea is also a fine plant ; i(s bright golden-yellow flowers 

 are very show3^ 



PctiDiias. — So numerous are the varieties we now have, that they 

 can be had of many shades of colour. They should be planted where 

 they can have tlie benefit of a free air. P. model, a rich purple with 

 a ligjjt eye, makes a fine bed, but the branches should be pegged down. 

 P. beaute supreme, flowers purple, large, and showy. Each of the 

 varieties of so numerous a family, are "handsome, and make a pretty 

 show. Thin away all luxuriant shoots, which soon repays. 



Phlox Drftmmojidii. — Now there are numerous varieties of this 

 charming flower, all of which are handsome, and succeed well in a 

 compost of equal parts of loam, peat, and leaf-mould, and a slight 

 covering over the surface of the bed, between the plants, is essential to 

 success in liot weather. I have it done with neat moss, which is kept 

 at its place with small sticks pricked in. If the soil become much 

 heated by hot sun, the plants soon die. The variety Leopoldina has 

 very pretty deep pink flowers, with a clear white centre. It is parti- 

 cularlj' handsome, and one of the best for flourishing in the open bed. 

 It merits a place in every flower garden, as does the variety P. oculata, 

 white with violet eye. The Phlox depressa is a fine plant for a bed ; 

 the flowers are of a rich rosy-purple colour, produced in profusion, 

 and blooms from the middle of I\Iay to the end of summer. The plant 

 is of stiff vigorous growth, about a foot higli. It is an hybrid variet}^, 

 raised between one of the hardy perennial kinds and P. Drummondii. 



Si/ene Shafftii. — This is a beautiful little hardy herbaceous 

 plant, growing about six inches high, forming a carpet of its foliage 

 and pretty bright purple flowers, each flower an inch across. It con- 

 tinues in bloom from May to the end of summer; and for a bed of 

 dwarf flowers, it is a valuable and elegant plant. 

 The subject will be continued in your next number. 



DIRECTIONS FOR GROWING WINDOW PLANTS. 



A FEW young men, resident at the village of Cow Cross, near 

 Stockport, have established (in connexion Avith a Sunday-school) a 

 society for encouraging a taste for gardening; and in order to promote 

 the cultiire of window plaids, have draM-n up the following direc- 

 tions, which we gladly insert, and hope it may induce others to follow 

 so laudable an example :— 



